Parental COVID-19-related health information practises, sources, evaluations and needs: A qualitative interview study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents of infants and young children may have specific health information needs and preferences, as they are responsible for their children's health. COVID-19 posed many challenges for families, not least in terms of the constantly updated disease-prevention guidelines. However, little is known about parents' experiences with this unprecedented situation, that is, how and where they seek, use and evaluate COVID-19 (child)-specific health information. We aimed to find out more about this to provide insights to health (information) providers when communicating pandemic information to parents.

Methods

We conducted semistructured telephone interviews (August to October 2020) with a purposively selected sample of 20 German-speaking and 10 Arabic-speaking parents of ch

SUBMITTER: Altawil H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9854324 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature